OpenRoads Designer Tip: Export to IFC As the civil engineering industry continues moving towards Digital Delivery, one of the things we need to look at is how to export our design models from…
OpenRoads Designer: Cross Section Crossing Point Annotation Scale A primary advantage of using model-centric workflows such as those found in OpenRoads Designer is the opportunity for near instant feedback to design model…
OpenRoads Designer Tip: Missing WorkSets Occasionally, you may find that the list of available WorkSets in the WorkPage is incomplete, and that some are missing. Within the WorkSet folder, we can…
OpenRoads Designer Video Tip: Points Filter Tool In this video we will show you the new tool in OpenRoads Designer v10.12. The Point Filter Tool will allow you to filter both Geometry Points and Survey Points…
OpenRoads Designer Tip: Text Field Background If you’ve opened up a DGN in OpenRoads Designer containing civil content that has been automatically annotated, you may have noticed a gray background…
OpenRoads Designer Video Tip: Converting MicroStation Graphics to Civil Geometry In this tutorial, we will show you how to take MicroStation graphics or graphics from InRoads and turn them into OpenRoads Designer Civil Geometry.
OpenRoads Roadway Tip: How to Change the Drawing Seed Name In the Place Named Boundary dialog, a listing of Drawing Seeds for Plan, Profile, Cross Section, and non-civil sheets available in the configuration are…
OpenRoads Designer Drainage & Utilities Tip: Validating Designs with Engineering Standards The analytic capabilities available to drainage designers in the Drainage and Utilities toolset within OpenRoads Designer provide valuable tools for the design…
OpenRoads ConceptStation Tip: Create an Opinion of Probable Cost (OPC) After you have reviewed your project’s quantities and no errors remain, you will want to create an opinion of probable cost, or OPC. With OpenRoads…
OpenRoads Designer Tip: Survey Attribute Overrides In some applications, surveyors may find it useful to have a single field code that can display different MicroStation cells. For example, imagine your agency…
OpenRoads ConceptStation Tip: Changing Materials in a Template Bentley provides a number of pre-built templates, and they also give you a number of components to build your own. Unfortunately, you cannot build any new…
OpenRoads ConceptStation Tip: Creating a New Template Bentley provides a number of pre-built templates, and they also give you a number of components to build your own. Unfortunately, you cannot build any new…
IAETP – Illinois Association of Engineering Technology Professionals EnvisionCAD is a proud BRONZE Sponsor of this event EnvisionCAD Senior Consultant Rod Wing will be presenting on topics including OpenRoads Designer/OpenSite…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Static Scaling for Survey Point Annotation When annotating survey shots in OpenRoads CONNECT Edition using the Element Annotation tool it is sometimes desired to have text associated with the survey…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Append Notes to Descriptions When importing survey data. Text Import Wizard has an option for notes which can be confused for the description column within the survey details dialog. Below…
MicroStation and OpenRoads Designer: Optimizing your remote working configuration Working from home is the new normal for a lot of companies. There are numerous methods businesses are utilizing for establishing remote connections and…
ORD – MicroStation Tip: MS_DGNLIBLIST variables In the CONNECT Edition products there are many new resource-specific MS_DGNLIBLIST variables. When do you use them, and when do you not? I’ve had…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Table Editor There is a new tool in OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition that allows you to edit alignments and profiles in a table editor format. It is located on the…
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OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Persist Snaps Toggle If you are a regular user of OpenRoads you know that snapping to Civil Objects in a dgn when placing new geometry creates a rule to that element. This…
Ten Commandments & a Heads-Up Ten Commandments for Creating Configurations in CONNECT When we build custom Configurations for clients there are some general rules by which we abide. These…
Bentley Products, Terminology, and Versions: Making sense of the confusion The more we talk to our clients, and other Bentley users, it has become crystal clear that many users and organizations are very confused by the terms and…
OpenRoads Tip: SUDA Centering Conduits on Nodes Tools built using Bentley’s OpenRoad Technology include the ability to leverage drainage and utility design tools incorporated into civil products. The…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Placing a Dynamic Label with Text Favorites If you’ve done any type of plan production with PowerGEOPAK (SELECTseries 4) or any of the previous versions, the new functionality of Text Favorites and the…
OpenRoads Technology Tip: SUDA Hydraulic Properties Update Tools built using Bentley’s OpenRoad Technology include the ability to leverage drainage and utility design tools incorporated into civil products. The…
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ORD – MicroStation Tip: AccuDraw Set Origin While working in OpenRoads Designer (ORD) there are many times you need to preform some standard MicroStation tasks. When doing so you may get frustrated that…
OpenRoads Tip: SUDA Catalog Editing Tools built using Bentley’s OpenRoad Technology include the ability to leverage drainage and utility design tools incorporated into the civil products. The…
OpenRoads Tip: Mirroring Entire Template During Creation When providing training on the corridor modeling functionality in the OpenRoads tools, I am often asked if it is possible to mirror the work done on a template…
OpenRoads Tip: SUDA Cell Location Issue The workings under the hood in the Subsurface Utilities is complex, bringing together Cell libraries, Feature Definitions, Feature Symbologies, and Element…
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